South Australia electoral district named in honour of Peter

[anthony]

South Australia went to the polls on Saturday, 17 March 2018, and one of the 47 districts in the lower house, the House of Assembly was named Badcoe. It is named in honour of Peter John Badcoe VC (1934–1967) posthumously awarded one of four Victoria Crosses to the Australian Army in Vietnam. Badcoe is a mostly residential area extending south-west from the City of Adelaide’s parklands and includes residential and some light industrial areas. It is approximately 14 square kilometres. This district, formerly named Ashford, was created at the 2016 electoral redistribution and will be first represented in 2018.

[David Cochrane]

I've always liked the Australian practice of naming constituencies after people; one doesn't see that very often in Canada, with the exception of Quebec, that has a number of federal & provincial ridings that follow that practice (mostly in Montreal, with a few elsewhere). At least it saves the trouble of (potentially) renaming a riding whenever its boundaries change, as some Canadian constituencies now have absurdly long names.